Born Digital

We currently are set up to manage two kinds of born digital content: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) and Undergraduate Research Papers. These vary immensely in workflow, as we are not archiving the latter, and the former have metadata input by the creators via ProQuest, that comes to us in proprietary XML.

Other kinds of born digital content are pouring into archives and special collections around the world, and librarians and archivists are scrambling to determine how best to manage the influx. This involves: